The essay is a personal one, about life lived through cinematic markers, childhood laughter and pants-wetting (the author's brother's pants, not the author's) while watching a Mickey Mouse cartoon, a queer adolescence that highlighted choices in screenings and choices society wouldn't let him make in the hormonally-charged back row seats, and adulthood musings on the Kiwi itch to travel and New Zealand's rediscovery of herself through her own filmmaking achievements.

According to Box Office Mojo, Iron Man 2’s $52. 4m opening, which includes approximately $7. 5m it earned at Thursday midnight screenings, is no. 7 on the all-time list for first-day box-office grosses.

Some of the most surprising feedback I’ve had since the festival screenings is a lot of response from men saying that they have grappled with body issues their whole life, and held back from chasing their dreams because of self-doubt.

The film did 8.2% of its business in midnight screenings, which is a bit high 5-6% is the norm, but nowhere near the 19% that the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part I or Twilight Saga: New Moon notched in their midnight showings.